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Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power

Understanding and Overcoming Their Power

by Terri Apter ...

An essential work for readers seeking compassionate, wise guidance about the powerful relationship between mothers and their sons and daughters.Mother love is often seen as sacred, but for many children the relationship is a painful struggle. Using the newest research on human attachment and brain development, Terri Apter, an internationally acclaimed psychologist and writer, unlocks the mysteries ... Read more

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An essential work for readers seeking compassionate, wise guidance about the powerful relationship between mothers and their sons and daughters.Mother love is often seen as sacred, but for many children the relationship is a painful struggle. Using the newest research on human attachment and brain development, Terri Apter, an internationally acclaimed psychologist and writer, unlocks the mysteries
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What Do You Want from Me?: Learning to Get Along with In-Laws

Learning to Get Along with In-Laws

by Terri Apter ...

Breaking new ground in family psychology, an exploration of the intricacy, friction, and love in the bonds between in-laws.When we marry, we believe the bond is between only two individuals. Few of us realize the power that inlaws will exert over our lives. But the in-laws we acquire when we marry affect our quality of life—our marriage, family, personal comfort, and long-term well-being—for ... Read more

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Breaking new ground in family psychology, an exploration of the intricacy, friction, and love in the bonds between in-laws.When we marry, we believe the bond is between only two individuals. Few of us realize the power that inlaws will exert over our lives. But the in-laws we acquire when we marry affect our quality of life—our marriage, family, personal comfort, and long-term well-being—for
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Passing Judgment

Praise and Blame in Everyday Life

by Terri Apter ...

Terri Apter reveals how everyday judgments impact our relationships and how praise, blame, and shame shape our sense of self.Do you know that praise is essential to the growth of a healthy brain? That experiences of praise and blame affect how long we live? That the conscious and unconscious judgments we engage in every day began as a crucial survival technique? Do you think people shouldn’t be ... Read more

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Terri Apter reveals how everyday judgments impact our relationships and how praise, blame, and shame shape our sense of self.Do you know that praise is essential to the growth of a healthy brain? That experiences of praise and blame affect how long we live? That the conscious and unconscious judgments we engage in every day began as a crucial survival technique? Do you think people shouldn’t be
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Secret Paths

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"The author of Altered Loves . . . now turns her analytical eye toward middle-aged women. The result is both lively and revealing." --New York Times Book ReviewIn this groundbreaking and insightful study Terri Apter traces womens midlife course, drawing on detailed interviews with women in their forties and fifties. Apter finds that women experience a renewed sense of themselves and see the second ... Read more

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"The author of Altered Loves . . . now turns her analytical eye toward middle-aged women. The result is both lively and revealing." --New York Times Book ReviewIn this groundbreaking and insightful study Terri Apter traces womens midlife course, drawing on detailed interviews with women in their forties and fifties. Apter finds that women experience a renewed sense of themselves and see the second
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The Teen Interpreter

A Guide to the Challenges and Joys of Raising Adolescents

by Terri Apter ...

The Teen Interpreter is a generous roadmap for enjoying the most challenging, and rewarding, parenting years.Once children hit adolescence, it seems as if overnight “I love you” becomes “leave me alone,” and any question from a parent can be dismissed with one word: “fine.” But while they may not show it, teenagers rely on their parents’ curiosity, delight, and connection to guide them through ... Read more

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The Teen Interpreter is a generous roadmap for enjoying the most challenging, and rewarding, parenting years.Once children hit adolescence, it seems as if overnight “I love you” becomes “leave me alone,” and any question from a parent can be dismissed with one word: “fine.” But while they may not show it, teenagers rely on their parents’ curiosity, delight, and connection to guide them through
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The Confident Child: Raising Children to Believe in Themselves

Raising Children to Believe in Themselves

by Terri Apter ...

A renowned social psychologist's clear-cut, thoughtful, and practical strategy for parents who want to promote self-confidence in their child.Raising confident, motivated, and caring children is a parent's greatest challenge. Drawing on her own extensive research on children and parents, Terri Apter has created a guide based on "emotional coaching"—learning to respond appropriately to a child's ... Read more

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A renowned social psychologist's clear-cut, thoughtful, and practical strategy for parents who want to promote self-confidence in their child.Raising confident, motivated, and caring children is a parent's greatest challenge. Drawing on her own extensive research on children and parents, Terri Apter has created a guide based on "emotional coaching"—learning to respond appropriately to a child's
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You Don't Really Know Me

Why Mothers and Daughters Fight and How Both Can Win

by Terri Apter ...

Understand what your teenage daughter really means—and learn to use your arguments to strengthen your bond with her.Mothers and teenage daughters argue more than any other child-parent pair—on average every two-and-a-half days. These quarrels, Terri Apter shows, are attempts to negotiate changes in a relationship that is valued by both mothers and daughters. A daughter often feels her mother doesn ... Read more

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Understand what your teenage daughter really means—and learn to use your arguments to strengthen your bond with her.Mothers and teenage daughters argue more than any other child-parent pair—on average every two-and-a-half days. These quarrels, Terri Apter shows, are attempts to negotiate changes in a relationship that is valued by both mothers and daughters. A daughter often feels her mother doesn
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The Sister Knot

Why We Fight, Why We're Jealous, and Why We'll Love Each Other No Matter What

by Terri Apter ...

“The best book on sisters, very important and beautifully written.”—Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different VoiceThis “substantial contribution to the literature on sibling relationships” (Library Journal) explores the intricacy, friction, and love in bonds between sisters. Relationships between women are often freighted with a rocky mix of emotions—devotion and disregard, affection and loathing, ... Read more

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“The best book on sisters, very important and beautifully written.”—Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different VoiceThis “substantial contribution to the literature on sibling relationships” (Library Journal) explores the intricacy, friction, and love in bonds between sisters. Relationships between women are often freighted with a rocky mix of emotions—devotion and disregard, affection and loathing,
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The Myth of Maturity

What Teenagers Need from Parents to Become Adults

by Terri Apter ...

"Parents and young adults alike should benefit from the advice in Apter's insightful book."—Washington PostWhat do young people at the threshold of adulthood really need and want? Why do so many responsible and motivated teenagers become young adults who are still dependent, financially and emotionally, on their parents? Why are many young people today so quick to leave childhood behind, but so ... Read more

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"Parents and young adults alike should benefit from the advice in Apter's insightful book."—Washington PostWhat do young people at the threshold of adulthood really need and want? Why do so many responsible and motivated teenagers become young adults who are still dependent, financially and emotionally, on their parents? Why are many young people today so quick to leave childhood behind, but so
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Best Friends

The Pleasures and Perils of Girls' and Women's Friendships

by Terri Apter, Ruthellen Josselson ...

Best Friends provides the missing link to understanding and recognizing the impact of some of the most important relationships in girls' and women's lives.Every woman remembers the sting of betrayal of a girlfriend, and every parent of a daughter has seen her come home from school in tears because a girl she thought was her best friend suddenly and inexplicably became her enemy. While boys hash ... Read more

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Best Friends provides the missing link to understanding and recognizing the impact of some of the most important relationships in girls' and women's lives.Every woman remembers the sting of betrayal of a girlfriend, and every parent of a daughter has seen her come home from school in tears because a girl she thought was her best friend suddenly and inexplicably became her enemy. While boys hash
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Grandparenting

On Love and Relationships Across Generations

by Terri Apter ...

Narrated by Phyllida Nash ...

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8 hours 19 min

**‘**Grandparenting is a long-awaited, well-informed, personal and well-researched insight into what it means to be a grandparent... A wonderful book’ JULIA SAMUEL, author of Every Family Has a StoryThe birth of a grandchild is a cause for celebration. But when a child becomes a parent themselves, existing family structures are radically altered. Old tensions between parents and their adult ... Read more

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**‘**Grandparenting is a long-awaited, well-informed, personal and well-researched insight into what it means to be a grandparent... A wonderful book’ JULIA SAMUEL, author of Every Family Has a StoryThe birth of a grandchild is a cause for celebration. But when a child becomes a parent themselves, existing family structures are radically altered. Old tensions between parents and their adult
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Passing Judgment

Praise and Blame in Everyday Life

by Terri Apter ...

Narrated by Ann Marie Lee ...

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8 hours 17 min

Our obsession with praise and blame begins soon after birth. Totally dependent on others, rapidly we learn to value praise and to fear the consequences of blame. Despite outgrowing an infant's dependence, we continue to monitor others' judgments of us—and develop what relational psychologist Terri Apter calls a "judgment meter," which constantly scans people and our interactions with them, ... Read more

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Our obsession with praise and blame begins soon after birth. Totally dependent on others, rapidly we learn to value praise and to fear the consequences of blame. Despite outgrowing an infant's dependence, we continue to monitor others' judgments of us—and develop what relational psychologist Terri Apter calls a "judgment meter," which constantly scans people and our interactions with them,
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